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Robbert Dijkgraaf (University of Amsterdam), interview with author, February 8, 2007.

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David Morrison (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, May 27, 2008.

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Allan Adams (MIT), interview with author, May 23, 2008.

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Joe Polchinski (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, August 31, 2007.

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Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study), e-mail letter to author, January 30, 2007.

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Adams, interview with author, May 23, 2008.

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Turnbull WWW Server, “Quotations by Gauss,” School of Mathematical Sciences, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, February 2006, http://wwwgroups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/-history/Quotations/Gauss.html.

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Ibid.

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Brian Greene, “String Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds,” lectures given at Theoretical Advanced Study Institute, 1996 session (TASI-96), Boulder, June 1996.

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К. C. Cole, “Time, Space Obsolete in New View of Universe,” Los Angeles Times, November 16, 1999.

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Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), interview with author, August 1, 2007.

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Morrison, interview with author, May 29, 2008.

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Brian Greene, Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage Books, 2000), pp. 268, 273.

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Paul Aspinwall (Duke University), interview with author, June 6, 2008.

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Morrison, interview with author, May 27, 2008.

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Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), February 7, 2007.

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Chris Beasley, Jonathan Heckman, and Cumrun Vafa, “GUTs and Exceptional Branes in F-Theory — I,” November 18, 2008, http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3391; Chris Beasley, Jonathan Heckman, and Cumrun Vafa, “GUTs and Exceptional Branes in F-Theory — II: Experimental Predictions,” June 12, 2008, http://arxiv.org/abs/arxiv:0806.0102; Ron Donagi and Martijn Wijnholt, “Model Building with F-Theory,” March 3, 2008, http://lanl.arxiv.org/pdf/0802.2969v2; and Ron Donagi and Martijn Wijnholt, “Breaking GUT Groups in F-Theory,” August 17, 2008, http://lanl.arxiv,org/pdf/0808.2223vl.

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Strominger, interview with author, July 23, 2007.

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Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University), interview with author, November 2, 2007.

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Leonard Mlodinow, Euclid's Mirror (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002), p. 255.

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Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study), e-mail letter to author, February 12, 2007.

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David Morrison (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, May 27, 2008.

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Ravi Vakil (Stanford University), interview with author, May 28, 2008.

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Strominger, interview with author, August 1, 2007.

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Piers Bursill-Hall, “Why Do We Study Geometry? Answers Through the Ages,” lecture, Faulkes Institute for Geometry, University of Cambridge, May 1, 2002.

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Donald Zeyl (University of Rhode Island), interview with author, October 18, 2007.